# Cookie Freezing Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 15, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695 "2010-11-15T01:32:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695/1 "2010-11-15T01:32:04Z")

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As Christmas cookie season approaches, I find myself contemplating sending some homemade baked goods, including cookies, as gifts.

Many of the things to be included can easily be made, well ahead of time, (a few weeks perhaps), as long as they are stored air tight, with care.

I’m curious about cookies though. Can I freeze them after I make them? Will they be okay? Anyone have any experience freezing homemade cookies? How did they fair?

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695/2 "2010-11-15T02:35:55Z")

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My mom routinely freezes baked cookies and un-baked cookie dough.

Just puts them in a large plastic box, in layers separated by wax paper. They thaw just fine and really are edible right out of the freezer, except in the case of chewy things like date-nut bars.

I seem to recall she would make them over Thanksgiving weekend and was able to serve them on Christmas.

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695/3 "2010-11-15T03:44:47Z")

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Cookies freeze great - do what **ZipperJJ** says and they’ll be fine. In fact, just today I told Mr. Athena that he had to hurry up and finish LAST Christmas’s cookies or I was going to throw them away and he basically told me that would happen over his dead body. Cookies freeze for a long, long time.

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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695/4 "2010-11-17T04:00:43Z")

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One of my very favorite things to eat as a child were frozen chocolate chips cookies snuck out of the basement freezer when I was supposed to be ironing…

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**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-freezing-questions/560695/5 "2010-11-17T04:08:10Z")

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I freeze cookies all the time. I only freeze once they’ve cooled to room temperature, although I don’t know if that’s strictly necessary.